Alvin J. Miller papers

Alvin J. Miller, born in Grantsville, Maryland in 1884, joined the College
of Education faculty in 1915 when Kent State University was the Kent State
Normal School.

He took a leave of absence to teach at Ohio Wesleyan College, returning to
Kent in 1917. In 1919 he went to the Soviet Union where he helped thousands of
Russians escape from Russia to Germany and on to Canada. He also aided in many
social projects including setting up public kitchens, negotiating contracts with
the Soviet Union to import 50 American-made tractors to aid in agriculture to
setting up a Red Cross center in Simferopol, Crimea in 1920.

Besides teaching at Kent State he also taught at Maryland Collegiate
Institute, Goshen College and the College of Wooster. He returned to Maryland
when he retired from Kent State University in 1974 after teaching for 37 years.
He died in November 1981.

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